This post contains affiliate links and book recommendations based on this topic. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health disorder that afflicts about 24 million Americans at any given time (National Institute of Health). Post-traumatic stress occurs, in short, when traumatic events are re-experienced due to external triggers, nightmares and/or reoccurring thoughts. Due to the […]
No More Secrets: Healing From Domestic Violence- Book Review
This writer received this book in exchange for this review. All opinions are my own. I have been working with domestic abuse survivors for 4 years. There is power in their story. The quote mentioned above is a message I have shared with survivors when they begin trauma treatment. I recently reviewed the book […]
Our Favorite TV Heroines: Connected By Trauma?
No spoilers! Originally published on 3/18/15 Powerful female characters have been taking over your TV and cable shows!! This post will focus on the following characters: Cookie Lyon in “Empire“, Claire Underwood in “House Of Cards“, Olivia Pope in “Scandal” and Annalise Keating from “How To Get Away With Murder“. In my conversations and […]
